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European CEO Magazine announced this week that it has named the University of Dubai (UD) the Most Innovative Business School in the Middle East in its 2011 Global Business Education Awards.

The award was based on such factors as accreditation, accessibility, value for money, diversity of curriculum and methodology, size (student to teacher ratios), graduation rate, admissions procedures, placement potential, training in technology, holistic approach and sustainability.

Anthony Michael, European CEO Magazine Awards Administrator said the award selection panel used a wide range of criteria to inform its decision, lending the critical eye of a collective 175 years of business journalism to the exhaustive information gathered by the award body's research team.

UD President Dr. Omar Hefni said, “This is a great honor. This award reaffirms our idea that high-quality business education must remain our top priority. Our exceptional faculty and staff work hard to give our students the very best business education and we take great pride in being recognized by such a well-informed publication as European CEO Magazine.”

The winners of the Global Business Awards, which also includes categories such as ‘CEO of the Year’ and ‘Best Private Banking,’ were announced on the European CEO Magazine website and the list will be published in its entirety in the magazine’s December/January issue.

“Educational development continues to be highlighted by our readers as a topic of great concern,” Michael said, “They appreciate that to develop a modern business, staff must be trained to the very highest possible standards.”

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The University of Dubai was established in 1997 by the Dubai Chamber of Commerce & Industry to address skill and qualification gaps in the workforce and to support the government's human resources development programs in the private and public sectors.More...

The University of Dubai was established in 1997 by the Dubai Chamber of Commerce & Industry to address skill and qualification gaps in the workforce and to support the government's human resources development programs in the private and public sectors.

Degree programs offered by the University of Dubai are recognized by the Ministry of Higher Education & Scientific Research in the UAE. The degree programs in the College of Business Administration are: Bachelor of Business Administration degree in Accounting, Finance and Banking, Management, Marketing, Human Resources Management, Entrepreneurship Management, Supply Chain & Logistics Management and Business Economics; and MBA in Leadership & Human Resources Management, Finance & Accounting, Operations & Logistics Management, International Business and Marketing. The College of Information Technology offers the degree of Bachelor of Science in Computing & Information Systems with additional concentrations in Information Systems Security and Electronic & Mobile Commerce.

The College of Business Administration is accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) and only 5% of business schools worldwide hold this prestigious international accreditation, including Harvard Business School. In addition, the Computing and Information Systems (CIS) program offered by the College of Information Technology is accredited internationally by the Computing Accreditation Commission (CAC) of the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) in the USA. These two international accreditations position the University of Dubai as the first private university recognized by the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research to earn such accreditations.